Version 5.4.3.2 of LibreOffice is currently available in the Flatpak category in Software Manager. That is a bit inconvenient to use right now as you can neither sort nor search the Flatpak category. You can attempt to find LibreOffice in that unsorted list or you can install it from the command line. Install it with this command:

flatpak install flathub org.libreoffice.LibreOffice

It may ask you about installing the required dependency org.gnome.Platform. Answer Y to continue as you need this.

Before you do the above, remove your current LibreOffice version because otherwise it will appear twice in your menu (the old version and the new version).

Edit: the LibreOffice flatpak will look a bit different as it will use default themes and not themes selected on your system. That's something that will improve in the future.

In a nice turn of events, the LibreOffice team have decided to use Flathub as an official distribution channel, i.e. the Flatpak version available in the software manager is an up-to-date release packaged by LibreOffice themselves. Let's hope this is the start of a trend.

Has anyone installed the Flatpak version and uninstalled the repo version on 18.3? Any caveats to be aware of?

MintBean wrote:In a nice turn of events, the LibreOffice team have decided to use Flathub as an official distribution channel, i.e. the Flatpak version available in the software manager is an up-to-date release packaged by LibreOffice themselves. Let's hope this is the start of a trend.

Has anyone installed the Flatpak version and uninstalled the repo version on 18.3? Any caveats to be aware of?

Yes - I've been pondering the same thing so hopefully someone has taken the plunge and enlighten us.

xenopeek wrote:Version 5.4.3.2 of LibreOffice is currently available in the Flatpak category in Software Manager. That is a bit inconvenient to use right now as you can neither sort nor search the Flatpak category. You can attempt to find LibreOffice in that unsorted list or you can install it from the command line. Install it with this command:

flatpak install flathub org.libreoffice.LibreOffice

It may ask you about installing the required dependency org.gnome.Platform. Answer Y to continue as you need this.

Before you do the above, remove your current LibreOffice version because otherwise it will appear twice in your menu (the old version and the new version).

Edit: the LibreOffice flatpak will look a bit different as it will use default themes and not themes selected on your system. That's something that will improve in the future.

I tried this and it worked perfectly and it gave me Version: 6.0.0.3 without any problems - did take off the previous version installed - this is so simple to do via the terminal - thank you

Libreoffice is since a few months officially using Flathub for distributing. So, installing it through it gives you always the latest version immediately after being released. No extra ppa's and stuff.

Libreoffice is since a few months officially using Flathub for distributing. So, installing it through it gives you always the latest version immediately after being released. No extra ppa's and stuff.

Does Flathub update automatically like a PPA? I cannot see that it does and I note that it does not provide version numbers nor even apps in alphabetical order. Minor issues maybe until there are thousands of apps!